President Donald Trump has told Prime Minister Narendra Modi during a conference call that the US will ship the first batch of 100 ventilators it has donated to India next week, to treat coronavirus patients

Marking the first anniversary of his second successive full majority government at the Centre, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in a letter addressed to all Indians, reminded them not only of the bold decisions taken by his government in the last year, but, in a reference to the raging COVID-19 pandemic, exhorted them to “remember that the present and future of 130 crore will never be dictated by an adversity”.